Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 7
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

MINDFOOD CIO 

MindFood is an Ealing based charity that supports people with depression, anxiety and stress to improve their wellbeing through gardening, mindfulness and horticulture.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Volun-
teers
31/10/22£111,192£79,901£31,29110
31/10/21£76,327£65,236£11,09110
31/10/20£58,306£52,576£5,73010
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 5 years

www.mindfood.org.uk

info@mindfood.org.uk

07720092954

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Services for people with disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 10 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
City Bridge Trust£30,000
National Lottery Community Fund£14,776
Department for Work and Pensions£12,744
Co-Operative Group£12,721
DCMS£9,345
The London Community Foundation£9,325
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to MindFood
£3,881 21/10/2023
We'd like to teach more people how to nurture better mental health, and grow vegetables and flowers to share with our local community, including more than 25 primary schools and support groups.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to MindFood CIO
£3,556 22/10/2022
We would like to deliver our Plot-to-Plate course. This uses food growing as a natural way to support people whose anxiety and/or depression has been exacerbated by social isolation during Covid.
Department for Work and Pensions - SOURCE ANTIQUES LIMMITED
£4,479 01/04/2022
The Kickstart Scheme provides funding to employers to create jobs for 16 to 24 year olds on Universal Credit.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to MindFood CIO
£30,000 12/01/2022
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£30,000 over three years (3 x £10,000) towards the salary of a Facilitator and running costs of ‘Green Some, Share Some’, a free food growing programme supporting people experiencing issues ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to MindFood
£5,285 23/10/2021
We’d like to run a garden DIY course to help people develop confidence, motivation, team-working and practical skills, while improving the MindFood plot and teaching self-care.
National Lottery Community Fund - Sustainable Wellbeing
£4,811 08/09/2021
This funding will help run a 'Sustainable Wellbeing' weekly session for five months that will support people with mental health problems to learn tools and techniques that will benefit both their ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Plot to Plate
£9,965 23/04/2021
The funding will be used to run a 'Plot-to-Plate’ ecotherapy programme that uses food growing as a natural way to support people whose anxiety and/or depression has been exacerbated by social ....more
Department for Work and Pensions - SPORTY STARS ACTIVITY GROUP
£8,265 01/04/2021
The Kickstart Scheme provides funding to create new jobs for 16 to 24 year olds on Universal Credit who are at risk of long term unemployment.
The London Community Foundation - Grant to MindFood
£9,325 12/02/2021
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Funding is for enhancing our MindFood @ Home programme to support people with mental health problems through the crisis: - Delivering food growing kits - Expanding our MindFood @ Home content - ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,345 29/09/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 04/10/2019, number: 1185639
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
3 returns made; all on time
Main office

6 Claygate Road
LONDON
W13 9XG

Objectives

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS:THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH AMONG PERSONS WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM MENTAL ILL HEALTH, DISABILITY OR EMOTIONAL DISORDER OF ANY DESCRIPTION OR WHO ARE IN NEED OF REHABILITATION AS A RESULT OF SUCH ILLNESS OR WHO WANT TO PREVENT THE OCCURRENCE OR RECURRENCE OF THE SAME IN EACH CASE BY THE PROVISION OF THERAPEUTIC GARDENING AND HORTICULTURE AND RELATED NATURE BASED ACTIVITIES.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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